Improvement in wagon end-gates



UNITED S'rA'I'Es PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL F. ADAIR AND EVAN K. ADAIR, OF OASIS, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT in WAGON END-GATES.

Specification forming'part of Letters Patent No. 174,403, dated March 7, 1876; application filed January 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL F. ADAIR and EVAN K. ADAIR, of Oasis, Johnson county, Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Wagon End-Gate, of which the following is a specification Figure 1 represents a side view of a wagonbody with our end-gates. Fig. 2 is an end view of the wagon-body, showing end-gate and mode of securing the same; and Fig.3 showsa top view of end-gate fastening.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. I

Our invention relates to an improved endgate fastening for wagon-bodies and consists of strap-cleats for guiding the end-gate, in connection with swinging cam-hooks pivoted to the same, that enter staples or loops of the cleats, and lock the gate securely thereby.

In the drawing, A represents a wagon-box B, the end-gate, which slides in metallic cleats O, that run along the side-boards, and pass through recesses of the bottom of the box to the top of the cross-piece D, that extends across the bottom of the wagon-box. The combined cleat and strap 0 has a foot or base flange, a,

that rests on the cross-piece D, outside of .the box A, and is attached, by a screwwbolt passing through the same, securely to the crosspiece. At each endof the gate B are applied to the stiffening-cleats O of the same pivoted cam-hooks E, that extend, by curved hooks (1, into staples or loops e, cast in the side of the cleats G. The cam-hooks E are also provided with handles or lever-'extensionsf, by which the hooks are carried into the staples, and thereby the end-gate securely locked to its guidecleats.

For removing the end-gate the handles of the cam-hooks B are swung on the pivots in upward direction until the hook ends clear the staples, as shown in Fig. 2, when the end-gate may be readily lifted out by taking hold of the handles of the hooks. By turning down the handles the hooks enter the loops, and lock the end-gate rigidly to the wagon-box.

The cleats serve also as straps for the side-boards of the wagon-body, and form, in connection with the hooks, acheap and readily-adjusted and securely-locked fastening for the endgate.

We are aware. that end-gates have been clamped to the sides of body by hooks and staples but What we claim is The groovedlooped cleats G, passed through recesses of box, and resting with base a on the cross-bar D, to strongly bind together the sides and bottom at the same time that they hold the end-gates in place, and enable the sides to be drawn together, all substantially as shown and described.

SAMUEL F. ADAIR.

EVAN K. ADAIR.

Witnesses:

J. GoweILL, MATH. HARRISON. 

